In the course of a millisecond, I devised a different strategy.I learned a long time ago that, when an animal -- like a horse --strikes at you with their hooves and you can\'t get away easily, the best thing to do is try to make a loud noise and make an aggressive move towards the animal.
It took a step away. At that point, I had lost my taste for corn-fed venison. The deer just stood there and stared at me.This was not a horse. The cattle, having seen the roping thing before, stayed well back They were not having any of it.The second thing I learned is that pound for pound, a deer is a LOT stronger than a cow or a colt.
This was a deer, so obviously, such trickery would not work. The first step in this adventure was getting a deer.
I figured that, since they congregate at my cattle feeder and do not seem to have much fear of me when we are there (a bold one will sometimes come right up and sniff at the bags of feed while I am in the back of the truck not 4 feet away), it should not be difficult to rope one, get up to it and toss a bag over its head (to calm it down) then hog tie it and transport it home.The first thing that I learned is that, while a deer may just stand there looking at you funny while you rope it, they are spurred to action when you start pulling on that rope.
What they do instead is paw your back and jump up and down on you while you are laying there crying like a little girl and covering your head.So now I know why when people go deer hunting they bring a rifle with a scope to sort of even the oddsThe reason I had always been told NOT to try to turn and run from a horse that paws at you is that there is a good chance that it will hit you in the back of the head.Did you know that deer bite? This is a true story. I took a step toward it.
That deer EXPLODED. Actual Letter from someone who writes and farms. They rear right up on their back feet and strike right about head and shoulder level, and their hooves are surprisingly sharp.Deer may not be so different from horses after all, besides being twice as strong and 3 times as evil, because the second I turned to run , it hit me right in the back of the head and knocked me down.ShortStories101.com is a platform for people who want to read and/or write short stories online. I put a little tension on the rope and then received an education.While I kept it busy tearing the tendons out of my right arm, I reached up with my left hand and pulled that rope loose. The deer just stood there and stared at me. I tried screaming and shaking instead. A cow or a colt in that weight range I could fight down with a rope and with some dignity. At that moment, I hated the thing, and I would venture a guess that the feeling was mutual.I wrapped the rope around my waist and twisted the end so I would have a good hold.
A cow or a colt in that weight range I could I had this idea that I was going to rope a deer, put it in a stall, feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it. I just wanted to get that devil creature off the end of that rope.Now, when a deer paws at you and knocks you down, it does not immediately leave. This will usually cause them to back down a bit so you can escape.At the time, there was no love at all between me and that deer.
I wrapped the rope around my waist and twisted the end so I would have a good hold. That was when I got my final lesson in deer behavior for the day.I had this idea that I was going to rope a deer, put it in a stall, feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it.The first step in this adventure was getting a deer. A deer bites you and shakes its head --almost like a pit bull.
I picked out....a likely looking one, stepped out from the end of the feeder, and threw.. ..my rope. The deer still just stood and stared at me, but you could tell it was mildly concerned about the whole rope situation. I screamed like a woman and tried to turn and run.The first step in this adventure was getting a deer. There was no controlling it and certainly no getting close to it. I put a little tension on the rope, and received an education.
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I suspect it does not recognize that the danger has passed. The deer still just stood and stared at me, but you could tell she was mildly concerned about the whole rope situation. The first step in […]
They bite HARD and it hurts.Please register or login to continueI filled the cattle feeder then hid down at the end with my rope.The only up side is that they do not have as much stamina as many other animals.A brief 10 minutes later, it was tired and not nearly as quick to jerk me off my feet and drag me when I managed to get up. I wrapped the rope around my waist and twisted the end so I would have a good hold. They do! Actual letter from someone who farms, writes well and tried this: I had this idea that I was going to rope a deer, put it in a stall, feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it.
I had this idea that I was going to rope a deer, put it in a stall, feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it. I picked a likely looking one, stepped out, and threw my rope.